Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature
Portraits and interviews with the world's finest natural wine producers — farmers and winemakers who work in harmony with terroir, minimal intervention, and a deep respect for the land.
La Boutanche
La Boutanche is Selection Massale's natural wine label launched in 2012, pairing iconic animal-mascot labels with 1-litre screw-top bottles of native-yeast, low-sulfur wines made by a rotating cast of trusted producers.
Les Valseuses
Antoine Le Court-Chedevergne and Julia Naar make additive-free wines in a 250-year-old Jura cellar, naming each cuvée after music that guided them from Australia to Brazil and back to France.
Château de Béru
After leaving Parisian finance, Athénaïs de Béru turned her family's 400-year-old Chablis estate fully biodynamic, with a walled monopole at its heart.
Domaine de la Voute des Crozes
An eight-generation family estate on Mont Brouilly where Nicole Chanrion, La Patronne de la Cote, has made traditional whole-cluster Cote-de-Brouilly since 1988.
Tardieu-Jambon
Tardieu-Jambon is a friendship in a bottle: Beaujolais legend Philippe Jambon and organic Rhone vigneron Denis Tardieu, making simple, honest, sulfur-free wine from sun-baked southern French terroir.
Domaine Perraud
After insecticides nearly cost Bruno Perraud his health, he and Isabelle turned to organic farming, bottling bright, no-sulfur Gamay from old Beaujolais vines.
Tailleurs Cueilleurs
Chloé Bey and Jordan d'Osualdo met at harvest in 2018 and founded Tailleurs Cueilleurs in Bugey in 2021, farming 4 biodynamic hectares in the Alpine foothills and making zero-sulfur Gamay, Mondeuse, and Chardonnay from their three mountain plots.
Le Raisin & l'Ange
Antonin Azzoni continues his father Gilles's pioneering zero-sulfur work in the Ardeche, farming a small family plot and sourcing from neighboring organic growers to make wines that have cheered hearts in these volcanic valleys since 2000.
Domaine Majas
In the high Agly valley, Alain and Agnès Carrère rebuilt their family estate with Tom Lubbe's help into a benchmark for fresh, low-alcohol Roussillon.
La Grange de l'Oncle Charles
Jérôme François and Morgane Stoquert farm 5 biodynamic hectares across eight Alsace villages with draft horses and sheep, producing field-blend wines of rare complexity in tiny quantities.
Château Puech Redon
On a vast organic estate near Nîmes, Cyril Cuche makes minimal-intervention Languedoc wines, several in collaboration with Eric Texier.
Olivier Minot
Olivier and Corinne Minot farm fifth-generation organic Gamay vines at Domaine des Charbonnieres in southern Beaujolais, making crushable concrete-aged natural wines that bring deserved attention to Beaujolais Sud.